Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Adversity is the mother of enterprise.
David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.
I have been visiting China since 1995.
Many people in public life are not good campaigners.
Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.
A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.
Any sustained rise in the price of oil will hit the Indian economy hard.
Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.
Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.
A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.
On climate change, Russia's interests are aligned with the West rather than the South.
Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.
In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.
Ups and downs are par for the course and very much a feature of the Indian growth process.
The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world's rising and risen powers.
Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?
Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.
It is inconceivable that the rise of Asia could happen without the rise of the Indian subcontinent.
The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.
Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.
For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.
The 1990s was not just Japan's 'wasted decade,' it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.
Economically, the business development of the greater Hyderabad region has made the city integral to the state.
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.
I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.
An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication.
Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.
India's difficulties in negotiating an FTA with both the ASEAN and E.U. are a reminder of the importance of multilateralism.
Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.
Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.
Few disagree with the view that the 21st century will witness the return of Asia to the centrestage of global economic activity.
There is no denying the fact that China has been able to convert its economic might into commercial and technological capability.
As Asia's rising powers seek to sustain growth and ensure stability, energy security has moved to the forefront of Asian geopolitics.
If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future of Hyderabad.
I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.
Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question.
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
Hyderabad is a truly pan-Telugu metropolis that has come to accept the mix of Telangana's dakhni culture and the coastal region's Andhra culture.
Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.
If the Asian financial crisis had the impact of accelerating China's rise, the transatlantic financial crisis has had the effect of accelerating Germany's rise.
When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.
Crises are inherent to market economies, but managing them is the key to political success, and the media plays a vital role in getting the policy message across.
The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top.
While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations in a complex polity like India.